Andy81

Cheers chap, as I said, I appreciate the conversations on here, it’s a good bunch.

I don’t speak for all Wolves fans at all, but I’ve never minded Villa. We both dislike those two in blue and white and thats good enough for me. While I’m at it, I’m being well received in here again, thanks for that. Hopefully you’ll be less keen to see me at 4pm

Nice one mate, I do love it in there. Unfortunately I won’t be there now as the tube was shit for me and I’ve missed my train, had to buy another ticket so I won’t have time for the pub now unfortunately. I should be easy to spot, I’ll be the sober one on the south bank

Oh god not this obsession thing. Check back over my posts, I don’t mind the Villa at all. Shouting ‘Obsession’ every time someone talks about you does you know good though, you’re like a girl who thinks everyone hates you because you’re just prettier than everyone else. Ignore me though, I’m pissed off as TFL have made me miss my **** train.

Seven goals after ninety minutes this season, which is a bit mad.

Great pub, that’s my first stop today after getting off the train.

Whatever happens on the pitch tomorrow, if we get one of these it'll have been worth the trip:

Yes, we're all inbred monsters who live in caves doing nothing but wishing for the downfall of our witty neighbours. Six fingers, I'll have to remember that one, you must be the Holte End's Oscar Wilde!

Best to wait until he’s ready. You did that last year and it turned your whole season around. Worth it just for the St Andrews game

Villa fans are all over wolves’ Twitter hashtag too. Heard this referred to as the ‘twitter derby’ as those are the only fans who really seem to care. for us this game is secondary in importance to the Bratislava game in my opinion this week. I have a bad feeling about Sunday to be honest.

I really don’t know what the club’s ambitions are, but based on the teams they’ve put out and the pragmatic approach to certain games it seems clear to me that those are the competitions we’re targeting. I believe Wolves think they can go deep into the Europa League, and I expect we’re chasing a top ten finish again. To be clear, I agree with the points about some of our play, I’d love to see us sign a Maddison type player to open up some of the deep sitting teams. It wasn’t all counter attack against Arsenal however, first ten minutes and last ten of the first half we controlled the game and had lots of possession in the Arsenal half. I think it would be greedy and unrealistic to expect a team in their second year to have FA Cup semi finals, 7th placed finish, European football, and play amazing attacking flowing football. By the way, you lot are doing so well, especially given the turnover in players last summer, I’m worried about Sunday.

Surprised at the response on here to last Wednesday. Europa League and Premier League are clearly our priorities, and 25 shots against arsenal (record for an away team I think) suggests we’re not too defensive.

Feud is probably too strong a word, but last season we seemed to be in each other’s way all season, which reminds me of Wolves and Villa in the championship, and I believe because of our vicinity that has stuck around. I guess we like a grudge. Correct me if I’m wrong but you lot and Newcastle don’t get on do you? with Watford There was a fan of theres badly hurt in Wolverhampton a few years back then last season when they beat us home their ex Albion keeper was rubbing it in on Twitter and Deeney was a bit of a prick after the semi. We seemed to be rivals for the last European spot all season, it was good to beat them in April after that semi final.

Yeah I agree. Twitter especially is bloody horrible. It’s not just Villa though, it’s been similar with Watford for a few years.

They all looked like they’d be frauds at conference level today to be honest.

Absolutely right. Wolves also can’t have a bigger squad of the required quality I’d say due to FFP.

Well that’s just not true at all. I don’t know what being in league one has to do with our current squad which has one player in it from that time. Absolutely no one thinks we’re Barcelona, but we’re rightly enthused about the last couple of seasons and the trajectory we seem to be on. Theres plenty of negativity on Molineux Mix. I’m sorry you can’t stand us. I think you’re all great.

Yeah it’s a bit of a concern. We won’t go down (probably) so I’m happy for us to go all in the Europa League. I don’t really care if any set of fans are in the right or not on social media, they all look pretty pathetic to me, I just don’t want to hear that Villa fans don’t care about Wolves because plenty seem to.

One loss in ten this season. We won’t be knocking on the door of the top six or anything, but European football sees to be our priority. We looked awful today, but I expected this, as I said earlier in this thread. I’m very happy with the start of our season. As an aside, Villa fans all over Wolves twitter today from the off. It’s not a one way thing at all.

That looked bloody harsh on you today.

This is how I read it too. By the way I was travelling on Friday so I didn't get to watch it, but congratulations on your win.

Two great finishes from him at the weekend. He Mount goal was nice too.

You could be right but that’s hard to prove. History says it makes a difference so you should expect a dip in the league at some point. Plenty of people were frustrated on Sunday for sure. I get the feeling the club’s priority is Europe too, and for the first time Nuno is having to be more forward thinking in his team selections.

Well, I'd say it has an effect, but less of one as the teams in the Champions League are better, and with bigger and better squads than those down the table. The gap between 4th and 7th is massive. On top of this, many of our most important players didn't have much of a break at all this summer. Four of our Portugese lot won the Nations League, and Raul won the Gold cup before we headed to China. I'm expecting our first loss of the season away at Everton on Sunday having got through against Torino. We won that game last season 3-1 so if I'm right that means we'll have dropped six points from the same fixtures as last season in just four games, which is significant. It will still have been a decent start to the season. I expect us to field weak sides in the League Cup.

I don't think the stats agree with you, teams who enter the Europa League in a fashion similar to Wolves last season tend to drop points the following season, we've already dropped three from the equivalent fixtures last season. On top of that, Wolves only really had one day to prepare for Burnley, where as they had a week, plus we played on the Monday the week before, not at the weekend. It's absolutely going to have an effect. https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2019/aug/12/premier-league-wolves-europa-league